Sometimes I have to ask, "Is the activity I'm considering really outside the scope of my current abilities, or am allowing anxiety to dictate my actions?" This week, I called it wrong; the activity, taking my motorcycle to the highly inaccessible student health parking lot, was indeed outside the scope of my abilities. Also outside the scope of my ( Read more... )

I need jumper cables for my brain. How am I supposed to go from sleep-inducing indulgence to reading "Keats's Ideal in the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'"? Yes, it's fascinating and has to do with my subject, but that means it's also heavily abstract.

In unrelated news, I would like to advise everyone reading this to always read recipes carefully. ( Read more... )

STOMP is still the most amazing thing ever. The plungers weren't a part of the show tonight, but still. Awesome. Afterward, some kids started jamming out on one of the garbage cans in the lobby.

There will not be a review of this. Just click all the links on YouTube.

My time management skills, such as they are, have failed me. Or, no, I have failed them by not really trying all that hard. I gotta get back on track. Which is why I'm posting to lj instead of doing schoolwork. Yeah.

Below the cut I ramble on and on about enjoying my job and (not enjoying) my harrowing Quest for Slacks that Fit.

( A big-legged woman ain't got no soul ... but she's probably got an easier time of it finding trousers than I have )

Something I did not consider yesterday: My models' blue jeans are similar enough in color to the blue background that I can't just magic wand the background out around their legs. I have spent the day manually removing those sections of the background. This means I have spent the day zoomed in on people's crotches. I don't really want to know my ( Read more... )

I took something like a bazillion photos today. Spellcheck didn't even correct "bazillion" just now. Even it acknowledges the freakish work I put in. Actually, I feel a lot of sympathy for one of my coworkers who spent upwards of three hours holding up the backdrop we used. I think the photos came out great, but my back is still aching. Anyway, it ( Read more... )

Seeing a new doctor at student health. I find myself very confident in her. This is nice, because last week I was less than impressed with the quality of care. Usually, it's good form to ask before bringing in a visiting doctor who's there just to observe. Especially when your female patient is in a flimsy paper thing designed to make the patient ( Read more... )

Wish me luck. I applied for a part-time radiology attendant position at a nearby hospital. It'll be a foot in the door in radiology. Also, writing up my cover letter, I realized I already had a fair amount of experience relevant to the position thanks to my responsibilities with my grandfather. The fact that it pays more ($8.79 per hour) and leaves ( Read more... )

I knew going in that I would be getting paid less than my work was worth. Entry level content assistant positions start at $10 an hour, not $7.25. Thing is, I'm not doing content assistant stuff like I thought I would. I'm doing full-on web manager stuff. So I'm not getting paid a little bit less than I'd normally make; I'm getting paid massively ( Read more... )

Okay, so I worked myself up into a near-frenzy this weekend. I'm pretty sure I just displaced my anxiety over the new job because I should be super-freaked about that and instead I'm really calm. Anyway, the frenzy has resulted in some planning and I feel better about things ( Read more... )